...rendered the following judgment : — " 'We cannot direct the law; the law must direct us. * * * * The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it...its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time of itself whence it was created, is erased from the memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be sufficient...

...extent, we find a clear intimation of the principle above stated. Slavery, .said Lord Mansfield, "is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced...reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law." " It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law." But this is a clear...

...V. Brown, 2 Salk., 666 ; 20 State Trials, 55, note.) (c) Lord MANSFIELD said, in Somersett's case, ' The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reason, moral or political, but only by positive law,' and negrophilism has been in raptures with him...

...said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Somerset, "is of such a nature that-it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW" — that is, express...

...says this : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive...long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It's so odious that nothing can be suffered to support...

...quoted as an illustration of the true rule of interpretation. " The state of Slavery," he said, " is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by posit i re law. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it bul, positive law." —...

...the law, as I understand, for the occasion, but certainly ruled it as the common law, says this : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after...

...the law, as I understand, for the occasion, but certainly ruled it as the common law, says this : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after...

...the haw, as I understand, for the occasion, but certainly ruled it as the common law, says this : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of l*ing introdufced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive law, which preserves its...

...the slave comes in question in the one case more than in the other ? The third principle is, that " the state of slavery is of such a nature, that it...reasons moral or political, but only by positive law." " Slavery is so odious, lhat nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." Now, if by positive...